Yahoo: Air quality on cruise ships found to be twice as bad as congested city centers: report

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July 5, 2017

Passengers aboard cruise ships could be exposing themselves to levels of air pollution that are twice as high as busy, congested city centers, according to a TV investigation that looked at the health effects of cruising.

In a Channel 4 episode of "Dispatches: Secrets of Your Cruise" which aired in the UK this week, undercover journalists boarded a P&O Cruise ship to explore growing concerns among scientists about the levels of particulates that cruise ships emit. 

Using a P-Trak ultrafine particulate counter, journalists recorded 84,000 ultra-fine particulates per cubic centimeter on the deck, downwind of the Oceana's funnels -- double the average found in Central London.

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